We’re glad to bring Kingsborough Community College to your home. Within this interactive guided tour, you’ll visit our modern campus – located on 71 acres and surrounded by the waters of Sheepshead Bay, Jamaica Bay, and the Atlantic Ocean. Just click “start” to begin your tour. Thanks…let’s begin. Did you know that Kingsborough offers outstanding […] Read more

Welcome to the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. You have just come in through the west ground level entrance, under the granite archway. Start your visit here, at the Visitor’s Center, where volunteers and automated information kiosks will help to answer your questions. On this level you’ll also find the Sales Shop, […] Read more

Our knowledge of ourselves and the world around us grows only through the accumulation of countless bits of information, laid down like bricks as a foundation for wisdom. Libraries are the intellectual brickyards of our civilization, fundamental to our survival and growth. This is the largest library in the world. More than 84 million items […] Read more

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum’s mission is to promote tolerance and historical perspective through the presentation and interpretation of the variety of immigrant and migrant experiences on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, a gateway to America. Today, although most citizens trace the beginnings of their American journeys to the urban rather than the rural environment […] Read more

The Museum’s collection of Old Master and nineteenth-century European paintings—one of the greatest such collections in existence—numbers approximately 2,200 works, dozens of which are instantly recognizable worldwide. The French, Italian, and Dutch schools are most strongly represented, with fine works also by British, Netherlandish, German, Spanish, and Flemish masters. The department’s holdings—which consist not only […] Read more

Few Old Masters are as enduringly popular as Rembrandt and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is proud to exhibit “Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter – Draftsman – Etcher.” The exhibition reveals the all-encompassing scope of the artist’s interests via his paintings, etchings and drawings. Beginning with Rembrandt’s constant and unflinching depictions of his own face, his […] Read more

Let’s begin our tour here, by the statue of William Tecumseh Sherman on Fifty-Ninth Street and Fifth Avenue. You are standing in the midst of the Upper East Side – justifiably considered New York’s “Gold Coast” with Fifth Avenue its “Millionaires’ Row”. It is in this neighborhood that Lady Caroline Astor countenanced the four hundred […] Read more

New Zealand has to be seen to be believed. Its unusual cities are gateways to the dramatically beautiful countryside, with superb open spaces, emerald hills, and snow-tipped alpine mountains. It is also a land of wonderful waters, waterfalls, geysers, endless inland seas, and a coastline bordered by miles of broad, clean beaches. Since it’s a […] Read more

Standing proud and magnificent on the banks of the legendary Nile is the only remaining Wonder of the Ancient World; the Great Pyramids and Sphinx at Giza. Travel to the edge of the desert plateau with your guide Omar Sharif, for an ancient unprecedented look into the secret passageways and chambers of these colossal and […] Read more